Monday, July 17, 2017
McCraney is now an Oscar-winning writer after the phenomenal success of Moonlight (based on one of his unproduced plays) and RuPaul has dragged drag into the mainstream
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:45AMThere was a special currency for Sarah Daniels' Neaptide being the opening play in the #ntQueer season as this 1986 drama was actually the first by a living female playwright at the National…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMSaturday, July 15, 2017
it is the complexity of this sensory overload that Alistair Wilkinson captures evocatively in his dance-led devised piece Man-Cub. Trailed as a queer adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Ju…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMKhalil has turned her focus to the experience of female detainees at the notorious Yarl’s Wood detention centre and the many, many indignities suffered by those trying to work their way th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, July 14, 2017
Part of the problem that faces writers trying to satirise Brexit is that the daily influx of tragic, comic and tragicomic headlines are more outlandish than they could surely have ever imagi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, July 12, 2017
Ahoy sailors! If what you thought the world of musical theatre was missing was the opportunity to be trapped on a boat for four days with a load of wealthy musical theatre fans, then worry n…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, July 11, 2017
Yank! was written by the Zellniks as a deliberate homage to the musicals of the 1940s but it is a Second World War love story with a difference.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMAmong the many themes raised by Bj McNeill's is nature versus nurture, questioning if there's an inescapable genetic legacy carried down by parents whether they're a part of one's life or no…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, July 6, 2017
Belonging is a public debate with poncy performance chaired by Scottee. Together with a committee of prominent queers he will explore where queer people sit in our society. A boozy, loose-to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, July 5, 2017
There's a rather lazy trope around 'unlikely subjects' for a musical which accompany any show that deviates from the apparent norm. Yet given that the Best New Musical Olivier award winners …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe solo musical is a rather under-used genre, perhaps a sign of how difficult it is to construct a musical monologue. But between them, lyricist Richy Hughes, composer Joseph Finlay and boo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, July 4, 2017
Taylor Mac's Hir comes loaded with worlds of contemporary resonances, particularly in its exploration of the disaffection of the American working class and its probing into multiple layers o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, July 1, 2017
Julian Fellowes’ book undulates gently rather than creating any particularly dramatic waves – Rat and Mole’s growing friendship is quietly but effectively done, Toad is characterised a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, June 30, 2017
A monthly micro-review from There Ought to be Clowns.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, June 29, 2017
In an abandoned building in a grim area of town, Eva and Huinca seem to be suffering the hangover from hell. She's a lame prostitute and he's dying of cirrhosis of the liver and with just a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, June 28, 2017
"We could see this was a bad one immediately. The sky was glowing."Touted as an evening of song, dance and poetry, Songs anA fundraising gala evening pulled together in the space of a week b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, June 26, 2017
There's something a little depressingly predictable about my inability to resist a neat bit of star casting - Marcia Gay Harden's long-in-the-making UK theatrical debut being the guilty part…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMBooking an interactive show in which we the audience get to play the role of the jury?
Using a gimmick to cover the business of reviewing the play....?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMI was rather seduced by The Quentin Dentin Show's charms when I saw it last year - riding post-Edinburgh enthusiasm, this sci-fi musical slotted into the late-night berth at the Above the Ar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, June 25, 2017
A Theatre Trip for Every Child, Lewisham is a new giving scheme to provide a free theatre ticket for every 5-year-old in the Borough of Lewisham. ‘Every Child’ enables businesses and ind…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, June 23, 2017
Truth be told I hadn't intended to see Gloria, my own little act of protest at the Hampstead's continuing gender imbalance - six shows straight on their main stage both written and directed …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, June 22, 2017
Elliott & Harper Productions have announced their first West End show in the form of Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle, a Simon Stephens play which will take up residency at the Wyn…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
Ovalhouse and BraveNewWorlds' Trinity describes itself as a design-led performance and it does feel more art installation than conventional theatre. And like much of modern art, it benefits …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, June 20, 2017
Camden Stands with Grenfell Tower: An evening of music and poetry in aid of Grenfell Tower Fire Fund.
Hosted by Ché Walker, Friday 23rd June sees a night of music and poetry in honour of t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAdding to the fundraising efforts already established, actor Giles Terera and producer Danielle Tarento have put together a theatrically inclined evening of song, dance and comedy in aid of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe scale of the intimate family drama that Robert Icke has fashioned from Shakespeare's ever-present tragedy amplifies effectively, and Andrew Scott's deeply conversational style still reso…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, June 17, 2017
Christine Edzard will be writing and directing a new version of The Good Soldier Schwejk, based on the satirical Czech novel by Jaroslav Hašek, and creating a daring theatrical and filmic e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, June 16, 2017
Even thinking about the plot gives me second-hand embarrassment. US evangelist Reverend Bobby Del La Ray launches GOD-TV, Britain's first pay-to-view religious channel, which soon flops but …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAfter a well-received run at Theatre N16 last year, Courtney Larkin's production of John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea has popped up again at the Old Red Lion, an ideal home …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, June 12, 2017
Gary Owen's Killology is a challenging watch - both structurally in its non-linear format and emotionally in its subject matter. Killology is a new gaming experience in which you score more …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAs canny a plan as it is, splitting rent and bills, its realities soon make themselves painfully apparent. They're basically all 30-somethings who are too old to be doing this, especially Me…
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